Faculty Directory
Ja'Bria Barber

Assistant Professor, Director of Music Therapy
114 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8782
Research interests: Music Therapy and Hip-Hop Education, a fusion that is deeply rooted in social learning theory and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
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Craig Brandwein (Brandwynne)

234 Hulsey Center
(205) 996-0640
Research and Teaching Interests: Education, Composer, Musician, Music Technology, Recording Engineering, Producing, Film Scoring and Sound Design
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Won Cho

245 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8781
Research and Teaching Interests: Applied Voice, Opera, Art Song, Oratorio, Musical, Diction for Singers, Acting, Opera Directing, Solo Performance in Opera, Oratorio, Concerts, CD recording, and with orchestra, Research on Korean Folk Songs/Art Songs through CD recording, Lecture-Recital, Concert, and publication
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Kathleen Costello

241 Hulsey Center
(205) 975-0558
Research/Creativity interests: Clarinet, woodwinds, chamber music, orchestral repertoire
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Patrick Evans

Hulsey Center 240
(205) 934-5828
Research and Teaching Interests: Sacred Music; Voice; Diction; Congregational Song; Global Hymnody; Opera; Music Theatre; Liturgy, Music, Justice, and Gender
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Gene Fambrough

Assistant Director of Bands
203 Hulsey Center
(205) 975-5823
Research and Teaching Interests: Percussion Ensemble, Marching Percussion, Steel Drum Band, Marimba Read more
Denise Gainey

Coordinator of Music Education
Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Music
241 Hulsey Center
(205) 975-0558
Research and Teaching Interests: Clarinet, Music Education
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Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk

Associate Dean, Honors College
224 Honors Hall
(205) 975-1691
Research and Teaching Interests: Performance Anxiety Management, Meditation for Musicians, Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique, Dowland Lute Songs Read more
Howard Irving

Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8783
Research Interests: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century British Music Criticism and Historiography, Keyboard Works of Joseph Haydn.
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Margaret Jackson

Hulsey Center 231
(205) 934-7376
Research and Teaching Interests: Embodiment, Vocality, Cognition, Popular music studies, 20th century German music history, Critical voice studies, Trauma, Sound studies, Music history pedagogy, Historiography, Neuroscience and music, Music and conflict, Migration studies, Economic anthropology
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Reginald Jackson

Assistant Professor
Director of the UAB Gospel Choir
117 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-6155
Research and Teaching Interests: Gospel Choir Clinician, Gospel Keyboard Improvisation, Solo Hammond B-3, Saxophone, Clarinet, African American Music/Gospel, Sacred Music and Piano Performer.
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Yakov Kasman

Artist-in-Residence
235 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8942
Research and Teaching Interests: Classical Piano Music
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Brian Kittredge

Associate Professor
Director of Choral Activities
Hulsey Center
(205) 975-2599
Teaching Interests: UAB Choirs
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Cara Morantz

Assistant Director of Bands
239 Hulsey Center
(205) 996-5827
Research and Teaching Interests: Instrumental Music Education, Beginning Brass Playing, Singing and Instrumental Performance
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Sean P. Murray

Director of Bands
208 Hulsey Center
(205) 975-9589
Research and Teaching Interests: Conducting, Music Education
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Caleb Owenby

231 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-1531
Research interests: Trombone performance, Brass Chamber Music, New Music
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Henry Panion III, PhD

Photo Credit: Steve WoodUniversity Professor of Music
Director of Music Technology
Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8780
Research and Teaching Interests: Music Technology, Orchestration, Theory, Conducting, Arranging, and Recording Engineering
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William Price

238 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8056
Research and Teaching Interests: Acoustic and Electroacoustic Music Composition; Postmodern American Music; Temporal and Textual Dissonance; the Music of Frank Zappa, John Zorn, and Tom Waits
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Steven Roberts

Photo Credit: Razaq KadriAssociate Professor
Hulsey Center
(205) 934-7376
Teaching Interests: Jazz, Trumpet
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Chris Steele

Aural Skills Instructor
242 Hulsey Center
(205) 964-7568
Research and Teaching Interests: Collaborative Piano, Music Theory and Aural Skills, New Music, the late style of Gabriel Fauré
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Lara Wilson

Research and Teaching Interests: Vocal Cross-Training Read more
James Zingara

247 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-7376
Teaching Interests: Trumpet, Conducting
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Virginia (Ginger) Zingara

231 Hulsey Center
(205) 996-7791
Research interests: Music Education, Instrumental Music, Fundamentals of Music, Music Appreciation
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